The Class of 1941 is a distinguished one by any account. Graduates became engineers and executives, writers and publishers, diplomats, doctors, lawyers and inventors. They were heroes in two wars.
Paying permanent tribute to this outstanding group of men, a handsome glass case in the den of Sorum House now displays memorabilia of their days at Union and different phases of their lives. Many members took part in dedicating the den last year.
"My father would have been pleased to see the results of his classmates' efforts," said Union Board Chairman Stephen Ciesinski '70, whose father, Adam, was a class member.
One of Union's seven Minerva Houses, Sorum House is dedicated to the memory of Dean of Faculty Christina (Christie) Sorum. It is popular for Christie's Coffeehouse and its student-faculty book groups and discussions.